well,with all the respect i partly disagree with the last poster
in my opinion is not the point to be lazy or not,or to be good with the editor.
i do agree that is a great thing to have the option to start a battle on the same historical battlefield (for example montebello)
with the same armie's composition and so on,and to have the free to make your own tactical deployment.
but i still feel that there should be the historical battle as well,if you gentlemen remember the taloonsoft and the HPS games like eggmuhl.
it gave you the change at one side to fight the realistic and historical battle,at the other these games gave you the opportunity to play a what-if....so with different starting positions,reinforcement and so on,i always remember that at borodino my favourite what-if battle was to use the old guard freely,the historical battle had the guard fixed in his position as historically napoleon didn't want to send them during the battle.
so in this way les grognards is even better,becouse i can deploy my army as i wish,but then again,it's like fighting a what if...
regards